Globe or funnel holder.



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GLOBE OR FUNNEL HOLDER.

{SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 686,083, dated November 5, 1901. Application filed November 23, 1900. Serial No. 3 7,447. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL KAMM, a citizen of the United States, residing in Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Globe or Funnel Holders, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to holders for any kind of glass funnels or globes that will inclose any kind of lighting power.

The object of my invention is to provide improved means that will clasp the rim of any such light-inclosing means, the latter usually made of some transparent reflecting material-such as, for instance, glass. This is accomplished by two or more tongues clasping the upper circumference of the rim of said globe or funnel, one of which tongues is made adjustable, the remainder being constructed as integral parts of the holder itself.

Myimprovement consists in the hereinafterdescribed combination and arrangement of elements. In thus describing my invention I shall call attention to the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different views.

Figure l is a side view of what is ordinarily known as a globe or funnel holder,showing my improved tongue lying in front of said View. Fig. 2 is a top view of said holder as it is seen in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail viewof the tongue itself; Fig. 4, an end View of the tongue as seen in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 a perspective view of my improved tongue.

In the said figures, A indicates the globe or funnel holder; B, the circular rim, furnished with tongues G and G forming integral parts with the said circular rim; D, D and D the arms, which arms at their central conjunction with each other have an aperture E, the said arms,consequently, together with the circular rim B, forming the main body of the holder A. H indicates myimproved adjustable tongue device, consisting of a main body H, from under the tongues O which .main body the operative projection H protrudes horizontally in regard to the posi tion of the holder A and relative to the main part H at a right angle therewith.

H indicates a vertically downwardly projecting part which serves as a means of manipnl'at-ing the main body H and projection. H inward and outward. The said main body H is constructed of some elastic material that is possessed of elasticity and resiliency enough to permit it to be moved away from the circumference of the ring B, against which ring B, when not acted upon, it lies fiat, and is secured to such ring by any simple adequate means-such as, for instance, (illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2,)the rivets F and F When the glass funnel or globe resting on the bottom of the circular rim B has been adjusted and O my adjustable tongue 11" will return to its position against the circumference of the ring B.

The action and adjustment of a tongue of this construction is productive of the following results: First, an easier, more practical way of manipulating an adjustable tongue of this kind-more practical especially because less injurious to the holder and less damaging to any lighting means inclosed within a glass funnel or globe, on account of the power moving my improved adjustable tongue acting at a right angle to the vertical axis of the lighting means and to the holder, in contradistinction to the majority of adjustable tongues and possibly in all cases where the power moving the adjustable tongue was eX- ercised vertically downward with a tendency to bend and ultimately break the holder, and thus bring the lighting means out of their vertical position. Secondly, my improved means will be found to be of a very simple construction and easily attached to the holder, consisting, as a matter of fact, of one single piece of material H, which piece of material, as long as it only possesses elasticity and spring action in the part H sufficient to permit it to be moved out of the circular alinement indicated by the circumference of the ring B, can be made from any material possessing such qualification.

Thetongue H is a flat spring struck or pressed from sheet metal of proper gage, the parts H and H being ears or wings, the part with the above description, and desire to se-- cure protection for by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- 1. In a globe-holder having a rim, a springtongue secured at one end to the rim and having a fin ger-piece and a catch at its free end, the finger-piece being in the plane of the tongue and the catch projecting at a right angle therefrom to intersect the aforesaid rim and engage with and hold the globe or part, substantially as set forth.

2. In a globe-holder having a rim provided with a transverse opening, a flat spring secured at one end to the rim and having an integral fin ger-piece and catch at its free end, the finger-piece being in the plane of the spring and the catch extending at a right angle therefrom and passing through the said opening of the rim, substantially as specified.

3. In combination with a globe-holder having a rim formed with an opening, a spring secured at one end to the rim and having a finger-piece and a lateral catch at its opposite end, the catch having a stop to limit the movement of the spring in one direction, substantially as specified.

4:. In combination with a globe-holder having a rim formed with an opening, a fiat spring arranged on the outside of the rim and curving longitudinally to lie close thereagainst and secured at one end thereto, and having integral wings at its opposite end to form a finger-piece and a catch, the fingerpiece being in the plane of the spring and the catch being bent at a right angle thereto and extending through the opening of the rim and having an extension forming a stop, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing l. have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of November, A. D. 1900.

SAMUEL KAMM.

Witnesses:

B. J. ,FALLON, AUGUST M. TREsoHoW. 

